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New Census Bureau working paper on using machine learning to enhance data availability

  • 1.  New Census Bureau working paper on using machine learning to enhance data availability

    Posted 05-21-2025 01:28 PM

    The Census Bureau just published a working paper on using "data from one survey (typically a smaller survey with a rich set of items) to train a machine learning model to predict an outcome of interest." They also provide an example modeling "a variable, whether or not a housing unit had an air conditioning unit from the American Housing Survey to the American Community Survey."

    Details and data:

    Cross-Survey Modeling: Fusing Data from Multiple Data Sources to Enhance Multi-Dimensional Measures

    Accelerating Entropy Balancing Sample Weighting

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    Accelerating Entropy Balancing Sample Weighting
    New optimization routines described and implemented to quickly weight large samples using Entropy Balance calibration.
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